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N. PETERS. FHDTDLITHOGRAPHER| WASHINGTON D C i I i antasnee i @anni @fitte Leners Patent Ne. 110,130, dated Deeember 13, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT- IN COAL-BARGES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the lame.

To all whom it may concern Beit known that I, LAWRENCE F. FRAZEE, of Jersey City, in thecounty of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Goal-Barges; and I do hereby declare the following to be such a full, clear, and exact description of the same as will enable any one skilled in the arts to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the annexed drawing making part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a top view ot' said barge;

Figui-e2, a side elevation' thereof; and' Figure 3, a transverse section on the line A A'.

The object of' my invention is to facilitate the shipment and transhipment of coal. This object I accom'- plish by a novel construction lof barge, the novelty consisting in constructing upon the deck of an ordinary lighter or vessel a series of velevated compartments of a given size, fitted with sloping bottoms and hinged doors, and combined with an elevator by vwhich the coal can be raised-out ofthe hold of' the barge to till the compartments. By these means the coal can be taken either directly out of another vessel into the compartments, or ont of the hold of the lighter, so.that at any time a given amount of coal can be dumped out of the compartments into a vessel brought alongside of the barge Without the trouble of wcighingor otherwise handling it, each compartment being made to hold a given weight of coal.

In the drawing- H represents the hull of the barge.

b b b, the columns upon which the compartments are'supported.

J J J, the compartment-s.

K, thesloping oors, and

`an c, the doors thereof, which are to be hinged' at the top and arranged to rise up around the hinge as a center, by which the coal is allowed to slide ofi' of the sloping bottoms into the vessel brought to receive it; or the compartments may be made with tlat bote` toms, fittedwith doors therein, to dump on a sloping platform beneath.

The elevator is to be of the ordinary variety, so that no special description of it is necessary here. The relation of the eleva-tor, however,to the compartments, is shown in the drawing by the four posts, marked I, which are intended to illustrate the post of' 'the clevator.

lt is to be arranged about in the center of the barge,

over a railroad-track, shown byP, the intention being to elevate the coal in a small car on the platform of' the elevator, the car being arranged to run off on the track when 'the platform is raised up, and dump in either compartment on either side of the barge.

Having now described the nature and extent of my invention,

I ciaim as new herein- 1'. A series of compartments supported upon columns above the spar-deck, and made, arranged, and operated substantially as described, for the purpose Aspecifi ed.

2. In combination with said elevated compartments, made, arrangedfand operated as aforesaid, an elevator' arranged in relation thereto, as shown and described, for the purpose specified.

LAWRENCE I". FRAZEE.

Witnesses:

PETER D. KENNY, AMos BRoADNAx. v 

